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PAR LTA MEN'i'. HOUSE Or Lows, WEDNRSDAY, APRIL 22. The House proceeded in the Queensberry Ap peals. Ihe Gi4ss Duties Bill, the Nottingham Cis Light Bill, some Local sand Private Bills, were bronr„nt lip front the House of Cotninons by Mr. 'Stiaith, Sir JameS Wodebonse, and other 'Membetts, and read a first time. The Eau Brink Drainage Bill was.reported by the Lad Beauchamp without amendment. An Account was presented from the Privy Seal Office of the Fees payable there . . neon Pardons sued - out 'under the Great Seal.—Ordered to lie upon the Table. 'l'l►e Marquis of LANSDOWNE gave notice for Friday of a motion for Papers respecting a recent regulation relative to the Pensions of the Widows of .Military Officers. The Earl of OttmoNo presented a pctition from the Inhabitants of the Parish of St. John's, Kil kenny, complaining of the pressure of the As sessed Taxes, and particularly of the Window Tax.—Ordered to lie (you the Table The Marquis of DowNstmta moved the print ing of the Account respecting the Income of their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Clarence, Kent;. Cumberland, Sussex, and Cambridge, observing, that in moving, on a former night, far this Ac count. be did not intend the slightest disrespect to the Royal Personages in question ; he merely moved it for the iut,►rrnatiun of the House, in consequence of the proposition for giving titer» an increaser! al!owirnee. Whilst upon his legs, he wishec . to express his satisfaction at the in tended reduction of the Window Tax in Ireland, to the atnoum 1 25 per cent. whicii would be a relief to a great number of persons now sutferine, touch distress in that part of the United Kingdom, and would no doubt be dilly appreciated there. The Account respecting the Incomes of the Royal Dukes was ordered to be printed. Adjourned till Friday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. BLACKBURN presented a Petition from Manchester, praying for an alteration in the Poor Laws, so far as relates to charging the owneis of small houses.—Read, and ordered ,to be referred to the Committee on the Poor Laws. The Cutlery Trade 'Regulation Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed, and to he printed. Mr. TIERNEY presented a Petition from the Landholders and others at the Isle of Ely, again.t the Duty on Rape Seed. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. - On the motion of Mr. M. A. Taylor, there ivls ordered to be presented to the Prince' Regent an Address. praying that there be laid liefule the House a return of the Causes en- . tered on the Marshal's Paper on the Western Circuit during the last fire years, and a similar return for the Assizes of York and Lancaster. CONTEMPT OF COURT. Mr. BENNET presented a Petition from persons confined in Fleet Prison for Contempt of Court, setting forth the hard. , ships which they endured---,that they had lately witnessed the death of eight fellow-poisoners confined for the same offence— that one person had been confined for thirty-four years, erre for eighteen; and another for eight. They prayed the House to take their case into consideration, with a view to afford them reliet.—The Petition was read, and ordered to lie on the table. The Report of the Costs of Suit Bill was received and agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time. -Ott the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE GICER, it was orderril, that the House, at its rising, should a,ljontu to Friday next. wruri FOR ELECTIONS. • Mr. WYNNE, referritrg to the Act of the 53,1 George 111. eyanee of kVtits, said that on the lith of March last he had inbred for a Return of the Nimes of the Sl o to whom, under this Act, Writs had been directed. Although this Return had been ordered by .the House, it had nut yet been made. Ile therefore moved that the Return be nude forthwith.—lt was ordered accord ingly. Glass Duties' Bill was read a third time and paSsed. • THE PRINCE REGENT AND MINISTERS. Mt. TIERNEY, referring to Ow commuoication which had been made to the [louse last Session, stating that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent intended to ►;ive up 50,0001. of his income, in consideration tif. the distresses of the nation, and that with the same view Ministers had agreed to give up 10 per cent. of their annual income, wished to know under what head he was to look for a statement of the aiuiount paid into the Exchequer on account of these grants? lie supposed it was included under smite particular bead ; hut he thought it would be better to have it stated separately, as it was no more than a temporary resource. He would he glad to !mow under what head he was to ►ook for these sums? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the Ilig,ht Hun. Gentleman must be aware that the sums he alluded to were carried to account under ths,annual Act fur puties on Pensions. The Committee on the Education of the Poor Bill was postponed till Monday. - CHARITABLE USES. • Mr.• BROUGHAM said, that he had in his possession a statement from a most respectable Gentleman, well known to the Members of the County of Berhs, which would con vince the House most fully of the necessity of appointing a Commission to inquire i nto the abuses exi s ti ng i n th e ma nagement of Charitable , Funds. He then read some passages from the statement, which mentioned some monstrous in stances, in,the County of Berks, of abuses by the Trustees of such Charitable Funds. PENSIONS AND SINECURES. Mr. TIERNEY remarked, that no Bill had yet been in troduced to abolish all the Sinecures which the Committee of last year iecommended should be abolished. He wished to know what was intended on this subject? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the Right Hqn. Gentleman must know that Bills had been in- troduced last year to abolish the most considerable Sinecures. Thme was now before the House a Bill to abolish the most consicke able of those which remained, namely, the office of Lord Justice General in Scotland. Mr. TIERNEY.=-But nothing seemed to be done respect. in; the pensioni. ALIENS. On the motion of Mr. WARM:, there was ordered to be laid before the House, Returns of the number of Aliens sent out of the kingdom since 1814, under any of the Alien Acts, and of the number of Aliens arrested since the souse time, and nut afterwards sent out of the country, FEVER IN IRELAND. Sir JOHN NEWPORT said,. that the progres s of a ,contagious disea se i n a country of such import.. lance as Ireland—a country which contained 19,000,000 of square acres, and not less than 6,000,000 of inhabitants, was a subject which strongly called for the attention of Parliament. The subject was not merely important with a view to put an end to the progress of the disease at present, but also to prevent its recurrence. With this view, it was his -intention, pursuant to his notice, to move for the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the subject. It was of impottance to observe the number of indivi duals admitted into Fever Hospitals. In the Fever Hospital of Cork there had been 10,010 patients admitted—in that of Dublin 10,341. Nor was the number so great in large cities only, for in the small town of Boyle 801 pa'ients had been admitted within five months. It gave him much satisfactiou to reflect that he had been the first person to propose to the Legislature the esta blishment of Fever Hospitals. He had no doubt that the labours of the Coranittee wouldd' shoW that one great and efficient cause of the extent of the fever, among the lower orders, was the want of employment regular and productive. It would he for:the .Counnittee to consider what wery,the best means of providing a permanent rem* for this lrei•rnsnent evil. Our great !minis of relief would be to extend the establishment of Fever Hospitals. He could not omit to notice with gratitude the great efforts made by the Govern ment of Ireland to restrain the ravages of this dreadful calamity.--(Hear, hear !)—E - le did not anticipate an►y opposition to the motion which he, meant to propose. Ile concludvd by moving, " That a Committee be appointed to inquire into the state of Ireland, with reference to the prevalence of the Fever, and to inquire into the hest means for the remedy and pre vention of this calamity." Mr. l'Etit. did not rise to offer any oppoSition to the motion, but for the more gratifying pur pose of seconding it. On a subject of . such im portance, he thought the House might he desirous to have such information 'as his official situation had put hint in possession of respecting the origin, progreSs, and extent of this drerdful Without going into those more mMute particulars which would more properly be laid before the Commit tee, be would content himself, in the facts which he was now about to lay before the House, evi!li referring to the Medical Report made to the Government from those parts.of Ireland where the disea. , e had been most prevalent. It was in the nionth.of September last that the disease assumed a peculiarly . alarming character, and attracted the more close attention of the• Government. At that peritid he thought it 'his duty to take the opinion of the most eminent utedleal met] as to its origin, extent and progress. Ill'Co9sequen6e, lie received reports front the four prOvinCes of the 'state of the fever in each. From ,these it appeared that it prevailed to the greatest extent in Ulster. As to the origin of the disease, all the medical men con curred in ascribing it to the following causes : first, to the extreme poverty of thelower orders; next, to the scarcity and bad quality of, the pro visions on which they subsisted; and then, to the depression of mind occasioned by the want of em ploythent and the miserable prospect before thein. In addition to these, there were other aggravating circumstances. There had been a very wet season, which had not only very much deteriorated the quality of that species of food on which the lower classes in Ireland principally depend, but also pre vented them from laying in fuel, which was almost as essential to their health and subsistence as- food. These causes all concurred to produce this dreadful disease. Many of the accounts which he had_received.„attriboted the spreading of the con tagion to two other causes, namely, the immense quantity of wandering beggars, and the practice, so universal in Ireland, of assembling in great numbers at funerals, He - was sure the House would feel that it was a lamentable—at least that it was an affecting circumstance—that one of the causes of the progress of this disease was that hospitable and kindly disposition, which, unde terred by the danger of contagion, made them re fuse to shut their doors to the homeless wander ers, or tc withhold from those rites which super stition and the custom of their forefathers made them regard as a pious duty to the dead.—(Hear, bear, heat !)—lt reminded him of a passage where the Roman Poet, (Lucretius) describing ths. pi. e n e at Athens, gave as the last and most conclusive proof of the terrors and mortality of thedisense, that among a people remarkable for the .super stitious regard with which they performed their religious ceremonies for the dead, even these rites were disregarded : " Nec tilos isle septiltorre reininebnt in tube, " Quo Arius hic poplin's selninir consueritt litunari." The returns in his possession showed that the month of September was the time when the fever began to be,..most peCuliarly characterised by its malignancy.• The number of patients - admitted to the Fever Hospital Of Dublin, from the Ist of September to the 28th of February, was 7,096. The number of patients in 'that Hospital on the 28111 of February was 1,001, whereas the number on the Ist of September was only 218. The num ber of admissions was greatly increased from the 28th of February to the 14th of March, and on that latter day the number in the Hospital wits 1,074, .The total number of deaths in the Hos pital of Dublin was 456 ; Ole proportion of the deaths to the admissions being as 1 to 16. The average of the daily admissions was 39.. The proportion of the deaths to the adinissious varied in different Hospitals : where greatest it was as 1 to 13 ; the smallest was in the proportion of 1 to 19. He thought he was not too sanguine when he considered that the calamity had reached its worst, and was now rapidly diminishiug. Since the 14th of March there had been a very consi derable abatement both as to the extent and the peculiar characteristics of the fever. The grounds on which he hoped that there was now a great ab a temen, were not only the returns which he had received from carious parts of the country, but the documents kept at Dublin, the authenticity of which could not, be doubted. The number ; of patients in Dublin Hospital on the 14th March was, as he had stated, 1074 ; but on the.l4th of April (the present month) it was only 850, being a diminution of 224. The proportion of deaths as compared w ith the admissions had also dimi nished. In one Hospital the proportion was as . . low as I to 82, though the general average was as I to '2O.- The total number of patietit3 cured and discharged within the last month, in Dublin ospitdl, was 1829, and the number of deaths was 89. But it was not only in Dublin that the abatement had taken place. In the North of Ireland the lever was much subdUed, and in the Western Districts the decrease was still more con siderable. He was in possession of returns from the Medical Superintendents in the various towns which proved this ; but he would not trouble the House with - these documents, as it would be more proper to produce them to the Committee. It gave him much satisfaction that the Right Hon. Baronet had not framed his motion so as to make it in the first place point to any particular plan for the employment of the-poor as a remedy foe this calamity. He agreed with him, that a main cause of the evil was this .want of employment. But then, he much feared that the rrmovalrof this cause was beyond the reach of any measure which the Executive Government could adopt. It • was therefore certainly much wiser, in the present stage at least, to avoid all debate. Upon that part of the subject. Many, proposals had been made for the employment of the poor in public works ; and, no doubt, in that way some relief was to be afforded, But then, witlva view to the 'extent of the evil, the utmost that could.be done in that way was but little.. Other sugges tion,, of a nature still more objectionable, were continually making to the Government, especially by manufacturers, who, being distressed by the un favourable state of the market for the particular sort of goods which they made, applied to Go vernment for loans to enable them to curry on their manufactures, and continue in employment the many persoi e s wlio wrought under them.— With applications of this kind it was obviously impossible to comply. For sinless there was a consumption adequate to the supply of the parti cular species of manufacture, it was quite clear that it would only he aggravating the difficulty' . by increasing the supply from the manufacturer. In short, the difficulties from the various retue dies proposed were endless. But this part of the subject would, to a certain extent, fall within the consideration of the .Cominittee. He would,: therefore, not trouble,the HOuSe farther, but -Eon- . tent himself with secpnding the- motion of the Right Hon..Baroftet.—(Hearl i hear, hear !). Mr. BENNET wished to draw the attention of the ITouse to the alarming progress Which Pever* had lately made among the lowerorders in Lon- - don. 1r was certainly • matter of surprise, that there was no institutiorOor the reception of pa; dents labouring under..tke.variom's lands of fever. The House would learn .With:surprise, that 800 patients had already been received into an institu tion lattly established in the Metropolis bytpri vate.subscription. , Aby man acquainted with the Hospitals in other' couittries., particularly in Paris and Vienna, lutist Ve . aware of the infetimity of the Hospitals of this country. He honed that the attention of the Rouse would be particnlarly called to the state of the Metropolis, with refer ence to the prevalence of Fever. It was true, that Government had ordered that 10001. should he ap plied to the establishment of a Fever Hospital ; but this suns was quite insufficient. - WILBERFORCE observed, that the sum of 10001. was certainly not stifficient. The subject was one of great importance, and called for the closest attention of Parliament and the Govern ment. The prevalence of fever in the metropolis was a fit subject for the appointment of a sepa rate Committee. Mr. BROUGHAM said, it was certainly true that in foreign countries hospitals were much better regulated than in this country, but then it was to be considered - that in other countries hospitals were supported by the GoVernments. This.tvas the only country in which funds to a very large extent were provided by private subscription for the maintenance of public hospitals. Mr. PHILLIPS gave an account of the good ef fects which had resulted . from the establishment of Fever Hospitals at Manchester, by voltuitary subscription. He thought it necessary that Go vernment should afford liberal assistance to form a large establishment for the same purpose. With a view to inquiry, he thought . it would be much more convenient that a separate COmmittee should be appointed to inquire into the state of the Fever in the Aietropolis. Sir S. RomILLY thought it absolutely necessary that a Committee should bcappointed to inquire into the state of Fever in London. He could, from his own knowledge, confirm all the state ments which had been made, relative to the 'pre valence of Fever ,in the Hospitals ; only that he understood- it had very rarely been fatal to the lower orderS. Several meetings had beets held for the purpose of establishhig Fever Hospitals in London, but they bad been found almost entirely to fail. Government certaidly ought to extend their aid on such an occasion to a much• greater ' extent than 10001. fir JonN NEWPORT replied. He mentio►►ed an instance of a horse in IVaterford, for the last forty years, had not been free from fever. - The Motion was then agreed to. FEVER IN THE METROPOLIS. Mr. BENNKT moved that a Committee be ap pointed to examine into the state of Contagious Fever in the Metropolis, and to inquire into.the stare of Institutions established for the cure and preventiod of that disease.---This motion was ,agreed to. Lord STANLEY postponed till Tuesday his mo tionlor the appoimiment of a Committee to in quire into the state of. the Cotton Factories. (For the Renzainder of the Debate in the House of Commons, see the Last page.) SIR RICHARD CROFT'S WILL. The Will of the late Sir RICHARD CROFT, Bart. was 'proved in Doctor's Coalitions on the 15th instant, by the relict, 'Dr.' I.IAILL4II, 211 (1 JOHN DENMAN,' Esq. the executors., The personal pro perty was sworn under sixteen thousand pounds. A Freehold Estate at Somerford Keynes, in the county of Wilts,• is devised to his eldest son, THOMAS ELMSLEY CROFT, and heirs male, with the• usual remainders ; out of which 2001. per an num is given to Lady CtioFT, diiring her life : and power is also given to the Devisee to charge the same with a sum of 60001:.for.•bis wile and children by his Will. - Freehold Estates ,in the ' counties of Hereford, and Middlesex, and the Leasehold house in Old Uurlintiton-street, (the . Testator's resid ence ) are di rec te d be - sold, and the produce to form part of the pursonality ; the residue of which (after a bequest to the relict of the household furniture, wine, - plate library, carriage and horses, and the interest of a 51111: to beet apart during her life, of between 5 and 60001.) is given to the children, with au exception of the one inheriting,the Wiltshire estate The Will is dated the 14th Nov. 1811. There is one Codicil, dated in 1816. • It declares the redemption of the land tax of the estate at Sometford KeYnes, and charges it 'With a stun Of 5.)001. to be added to the residuary personal estate. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " A Friend to Improvements" is informed, that ive ' la.e ready inserted two articles on th e subject of the New Mt": brought into notice by that p u bli c - s pi r ited Char tsz l4. AcKE ; and, consid e rin g it as a highly ben eficial dis h , covert', we shall be glad "to give it all the support in °°, power. , We 'must pleatbC the piivilege-of Parliaaken?' for delg irig the Favours of any of our valuable Correspondents' *** FOr LITERARY R E V IEW , an d C OUN TRY' BA , ..-P 81 First Page. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Lust Night. -, • THEATRE ROYAL, DR Li RT-LANE.—thhello : Othe ll o,. Kean; Desdemona, Mrs. Robinson. After ht. Amoroso. To %shish was added, The Sleein Drang--1;r4: THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GA RHEN.—(Ist tine)., ik ilai i i kiter Montalto, Mr. Young- ; Bellamira, Miss O'Neill . which (7th time), Who's-My Father ? which fed Wi./. • MAILS. • ARRlvei)-1 Gottenburgb, 1 France. DUE-1 v" - Waterford, 1 Guernsey aril Jersey, 1 Lisbon, 1 Hamberg PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE o'CIA)CIC. Bank Stock ' per Cent. Red....... 79 78i India 80nd5.... ...... 99 vs . VP 3 per Cent. Cons. 7914 i E x el i. Bill s, 2 d,.. 18s .r. 4 per Cents 97i 961 y Di tto, 2 & d........ 193. ' ,„1, 0 lyji 5 per Ct. N. Ann... 106 if 106 Cons. fur. May—.79i 8 Bank Long/Inn-20 7-16th • • HIGH WATER AT ,LONDON BRIDGE.To.mOA Horning, '27 initiates afteT 4. 1 Eve n in g , 54 miuu rs ofter A•.• • ` . TUE. .'.SUN. BOLETI QUIs DICEEtE FALSUM Atillk:Ar? LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1813. We received this m orn i ng t h e Paris roP ers • of Monday last. The following are ex tracts " PARIS, Aran 2b.—The Duke of elling t° l ; proceeded yesterday a t 2 o ' c l oc k to the leries, to pay his respects to the King, the grilic and Princesses. It has been stated within these fe w to that. Prince J a bl onows ky, w h o was emPlq -1,4 obtain the remains of Koscuisko, had faacti mission. On the contrary, the Lausanne tiuze $ of the 14th instant announces, that the rem sin of the POlish G enera l h a d be en conve yed ,fr om Soleure on their way to Poland, acCompon ied • il Prince Jablonon'sky and M. Z e l tner , of S 43leureP an intimate ft iend of the deceased. ‘-‘ MADRID, APRIL B.—lt is again said that 111 C o • King of Spain will a tte n d t h e C ongr ess of 1" c v reigns. • su " The-general arming of the Provinces of -J cay, Alava, and G u ip uscoa , ex i s ts on ly in th e beards of Quidnuncs. Th ese P rov i nces have w ere 4 raised some companies of soldiers in lieu of a a3v. litia ballot, from which they are exempted' d ; " The report of the Infant D o n froD" ro being about to found a new dynasty 0 0 the ha" -7.-i of the Rio de la Plata is also a reverie. " The Russian *hip s , con t rar y t o what been said, only required some slight repairs, - they are now ready for service. There i 8 nothtn&l however, to indicate when the 'expeditioit 0 sail. The troops r ema i n i n t h e i r r espective jj • It 14 toutnents in Andalusia and Estretnadura• J ac At believed, howe ver , t h at t h ey w ill b e asse to , u. l Cadiz in the course of a few days. O f " ARSAT APRIL 2.—At the fi r st Sitt in g the Diet, the E m p eror o f R uss i a, after • ileli verin k his opening speech, q u itt e d t h e Th rone , and to his scat amongst the Deputies. He remai lle( rt the latte r pl ace d ur i ng t h e reading of the I teP t „ respecting:he state of the Kin g d o m of r. °-I G , made by Count M o stO ws ki, Mi n i ster o f the P it rior and of Police." . - Le tt " We this day received a very interesting' on the State of France from our valuabio6°—ye . s i spondent at Paris, but t oo l a t e f or insertion th . day. It shall certainly appear to-niorrow• • e We are extremely sorry t o s t a t e t hat " h7lris has obliged Mr. HILEY A DDINGTON to retir e -I.° for tb g his situation as Under S ecretar y of Stpte for Home Department, which he has so ably 6116(n lir . above fire years. He i s t o b e succee ded by - HENRY CLIVE, M. P. for Ludlow. . _ ;11 . It will be gratifying to our. Readers t° some degree relieved from the tiresome rer tiu , of Opposition clamours in P ar li am ent, 013 d hac k Q ir ils neyed abuse of Ministers, for measures wid cb Opponents would doubtless adopt themsel%:e they were in place, a nd i n fl uence d a s mu ch by regard to the public interest as they would assuredilt be to their own. The chief subject noticed, las' night, in the House of Commons, re l a ted to contageous fever which has made such d rea d firl havoc in Ireland, which was a lso in some degree prevalent in this country, but which, ha 11 pPi l Y' ' both, is now in a fair way to be wholly subduetti Mr. PeEL's Speech, on the subject, was marKc j a . t i: by that attention, humanity, sound reasoning, r Lull information, which characterize wh atever sentiments that Gentleman delivers, and whoreYe objects of public utility may at any to his exettions. time g i ve scoe WATER Cori PANT Es.—;We earnestly hope I' 1e IY Lord LaUDERDAU, Whose talents , prop dire wilt " 1 1113 \V AT I Ifl at inhai fo k .0 4 I- Ar t te l) *u I rt, ta t n. -of. 11 '1 1 4414 e4 4it 44, ohm ..Bay h i , i e d i lei Th i b l i t ti tt Alt